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worried_jim wrote: »

Tatty rear bumper-

Don't you just love it when car traders stick ticker tape on the number plates to cover up the previous dealer's details. :rotfl:

worried_jim

The MOT didn't go well yesterday. When the tester got halfway through the second page of failures I just said, "please, stop".

The tax is up on Thursday 31st Jan and the current MOT lasts until mid Feb so I have decided to scrap the car on Thursday and spend no more on a car with a new MOT than £500. Not too sure what to get yet but I have 6 days to find one and have it on the road by Friday 1st February.

Looking forward to the challenge, and I might get something a bit different.

Paperwork of shame-

colino

I don't see a whole lot of cost tied up there if your handy with the spanners. Only stick out fail is the corrosion one, I honestly don't remember a 600 being rotten. (Apart from the superficial back quarter panels due to a wheelarch mud trap).
Exhaust is classic Rover, probably breaking in line with the back wheel due to its excessive weight and lack of mountings.
At that age though, that paintwork and probably needing window regulators, I see ebay being your friend.

worried_jim

Strangley I heard the exhaust starting to blow just the night before the MOT when I returned from the "Italian tune up"- that didn't work either!

scheming_gypsy

Freecycle - needed £50 of work doing to it. Had it for a year then sold it for £650
BMW 318i



Rev 3 MR2. Bought for £500, but needed a new clutch. One of my mates fitted it for free but the clutch cost £75. Sold 18months later for £750



MGZS. Bought for £550. Sold for £670 after six months



Bought this one just before Christmas.
BMW 318i estate. Full leather interior - no rips. 12months MOT & 6months tax for £500.

Rolandtheroadie

Get back on the veg burners.

worried_jim

scotsman4th wrote: »

Get back on the veg burners.

Very tempted, having a good look around gumtree at the moment.

Scheming Gypsy- great cars, well impressed.

sabretoothtigger

BMW 318i - £50

Bargaaaain what was the simple fix. I'd have loved to get that MR2 and hopefully still reliable as per Toyota. BMW I'm not so sure of, expensive to fix is my presumption

scheming_gypsy

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Bargaaaain what was the simple fix. I'd have loved to get that MR2 and hopefully still reliable as per Toyota. BMW I'm not so sure of, expensive to fix is my presumption

They were moving house and the oil sump needed repairing, but they were moving on the Thursday and needed to sort something out with the car. The tax had run out and the sump needed doing so they couldn't move it, it also needed cleaning and they hadn't left enough time to sell it and have it collected - so he gave it away.
One of my mechanic mates picked it up on the recovery truck, took it back and changed the sump off an old BM they had there and dropped it off for me, all for £50.

i loved the MR2 but decided to kit it up, started and never got round to finishing it so i sold her

The BM estate has a couple of cheap niggles, but one mate works for Euro Car Parts and his brother has a garage - so fixes are usually reasonable. But if it breaks i can sell the interior for a couple of hundred as it's spotless, then weigh it in so i won't lose anything.


I've also had.

Volvo 2.5 with T5R kit. Cost £500, ran it over winter, failed it's MOT and sold it as spares / repair for £350



and last year I got

T5 estate, black, manual with full black leather interior - £650
Wish i never sold it though.. but only had it for a few months and sold for £870.


..


replaced it with

Jeep Grand Cherokee Ltd - £699

ran it over winter, then sold the bull bar and side steps. then sold the Jeep for £450



My C70 T5 convertible is just over the £1000 limit as I paid £1150 for it on a W plate.

Becciboobah

I've only just found this thread but we are keen students of bangernomics too. The 1990 MR2 in my avatar pic we paid £995 for from a guy that was emigrating about 3 years ago. Cost us 4 new tyres and front brakes and pads until a year ago when a lorry decided it fancied driving into the side of it. Bad times. Replaced with a 1989 MR2 T-bar (same body kit etc) but in green. That's cost us nothing so far apart from fuel but it's only used to go 2 miles to work and back during the week really (it's a struggle to fit 3 kids into a 2 seater car haha).

I was driving a 1998 Renault Megane Scenic for 3 years which cost me £450 with a years MOT and 4 months tax. Never failed an MOT that car. That died a few months ago and replaced with an 03 plate 1.8i Vectra LS which is a lovely car to drive and quite economical. I must confess to that being a freebie. My Dad gave it to me when he had his licence revoked for medical reasons but it's probably a sub £1000 car. Has only done 2k miles in 18 months so I'm hoping it'll be kind at MOT time as my Dad looked after it. Just a shame the engine bay isn't as 'accessible' as my Escorts

Always owned Fords before the Scenic. Cheap as chips to buy and parts are buttons. Still have a cupboard full of 'bits' for an Escort! Just fancied a change. Love everyone's Bangernomics stories.